{"id":24546,"date":"2025-11-13T04:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=24546"},"modified":"2025-11-29T23:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:56:47","slug":"systems-thinking-for-youth-climate-education-civic-action-introduction-to-the-compass-tools-virtual-workshop-series-for-educators-in-chesapeake-bay-region","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/event\/systems-thinking-for-youth-climate-education-civic-action-introduction-to-the-compass-tools-virtual-workshop-series-for-educators-in-chesapeake-bay-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems Thinking for Youth Climate Education &#038; Civic Action: Introduction to the Compass Tools Virtual Workshop Series for Educators in Chesapeake Bay Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Are you looking to embed climate education in your curriculum?\u00a0Do you want to empower your students to take civic action to address climate change?\u00a0How can you be a leader of the climate education movement in your community?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Compass Education is pleased to offer a three-part virtual Introduction to the Compass Tools workshop series this winter for educators across the Chesapeake Bay area on <strong>\u2018Systems Thinking for Youth Climate Education and Civic Action.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f Date: December 4 and 11, January 8<br \/>\n\u23f0 Time: 4-6 pm Eastern Time<br \/>\n\ud83d\udccd Location: Zoom details will be sent by email after application approval<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud83d\udea8 <\/span>Application deadline: December 4<\/p>\n<p>This highly interactive workshop series will introduce participants to the fundamentals of systems thinking and teach them to use the versatile systems thinking tools, The Sustainability Compass and the Systems Iceberg, to integrate sustainability and climate issues into their work. Participants will leave this series with a plan to use systems thinking to integrate climate education into their work or engage their students in civic action for sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any classroom educator or school administrator currently working in <strong>Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or the District of Colombia<\/strong> is eligible to apply. We especially encourage educators working in public or government schools with limited access to professional learning funds to apply.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Participants who complete all workshop requirements will receive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$50 stipend<br \/>\n1:1 consultation with a Compass Facilitator<\/li>\n<li>Free recourses to integrate sustainability and systems into any curriculum and every class level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/systems-thinking-for-youth-climate-education-and-civic-action-in-chesapeake-bay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apply Here<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Facilitator<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21382\" src=\"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nicole-Swedlow_round.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nicole-Swedlow_round.png 1000w, https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nicole-Swedlow_round-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nicole-Swedlow_round-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nicole-Swedlow_round-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Nicole-Swedlow_round-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicole Swedlow<\/strong> is the Executive Director of Compass Education, a global non-profit supporting education for sustainability through training in systems thinking practices. As a consultant, she is passionate about helping schools and businesses integrate sustainable principles with a strategic, inclusive and conscious approach. Nicole\u2019s work in nonprofit leadership and sustainability as Director of the nonprofit organization Entreamigos, has been recognized by the United Nations, as a finalist for the Global Equator Initiative, as a breakout speaker for the World Economic Forum, and by the Dalai Lama, as a 2014 Unsung Hero of Compassion. Nicole has a Masters Degree in Education and Global Change from the University of British Columbia.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking to embed climate education in your curriculum?\u00a0Do you want to empower your students to take civic action to address climate change?\u00a0How can you be a leader of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24550,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[114,143,128],"class_list":["post-24546","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-introductory","tribe_events_cat-virtual","tribe_events_cat-workshop","cat_introductory","cat_virtual","cat_workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/24546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/24546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24662,"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/24546\/revisions\/24662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24546"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/compasseducation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=24546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}